On the day of a 2020 presidential debate, Fox News' Brit Hume said that there wasn't any doubt that, even then, Joe Biden had cognitive issues:
On the night of the Sept. 29 presidential debate in Cleveland, Fox News’ senior political analyst Brit Hume said on TV that despite Trump’s claims about Biden’s health, Biden might do okay at the debate, since Biden "did just fine" when he debated Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., during the Democratic primary. Hume then called Biden "senile."
"Elderly people experiencing memory loss and other problems associated with age can go for periods, for hours at a time and be just fine," Hume said before the debate. "I don’t think there’s any doubt Biden’s senile, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to show up tonight. ... And now that the expectations for him have been set so low, you know if he comes out and doesn’t drool and gets through everything pretty well it could end up being quite a boost for him."
PolitiFact's "fact check" at the time is making the rounds again several years later, and considering what we now know this is another item that belongs in "'The Experts' Hall of Dishonor":
Politifact flashback: “experts say” @brithume is wrong about Biden’s mental decline pic.twitter.com/j1C1E0Kd26
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) May 23, 2025
Hume reposted Mollie Hemingway's praise for Hume's honesty at the time while others in the media were running cover for Biden and the Democrats via lies and gaslighting:
There were so many times left-wing groups such as “PolitiFact” came after @brithume for acknowledging Biden’s senility. He has not gotten enough credit for being honest in the face of the pressure campaign to join the liars in covering up Biden’s problems. https://t.co/zQ5ueT4MKJ
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 24, 2025
The effort to cover up Biden's decline was massive and obviously included PolitiFact. The media has covered itself in more "journalism" glory, that's for sure:
SUPERCUT!
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) June 15, 2024
Corporate media: Don't believe your lying eyes, Biden's never been sharper! pic.twitter.com/FW6e2ZPT5i
We've come a long way since "it's just a stutter and stop mocking it!"
The Democrats and SOME in the media are now backpedaling, but they can't be allowed to just "forget about it and move on," which is what the want to do:
One thing's for sure:
“Experts” are having quite a decade. https://t.co/ZVrst8PtM4
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) May 24, 2025
It's been so bad "the experts" is now used as a pejorative.
